About today -

[kyburg]

I can remember when Martin Luther King was alive.

And I can remember the day he was killed, and it makes as much sense today as it did then.

As in, none.

And none of the stuff that's followed it has made all that much more sense, either.

I still want that t-shirt, motorbike.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It does make sense, if you know where to look. I can go into detail if you want, but the 50,000-foot overview is that, until the Apocalypse (however you define that), there will always be people on this earth who understand better, and are more willing to use, the language of violence than anything else... and that We The People have to be ready, willing, and able to deal with such. It doesn't mean we should go around looking for trouble... that just gets more *good* men and women killed... but while I think nonviolence can go a long way - and I hope and actively work for it to go a lot further - when the battle of words becomes a battle of bullets, you can give up or you can return fire. (Or if you're really good you can track the bastards back to their lairs and deal with them through the courts, but you'd still be dumb to track them without being armed and very, very dangerous yourself.)

As for what happened after his death - *sigh* Many, many's the time when the death of a righteous man - or a merely famous one - is used for ill. It's been going on for... I was going to say at least 2000 years, but it's actually at least a bit more than that; Julius Caesar died nearly a century before the Rabbi did. Not saying that Brutus' pal there was anywhere near as righteous... but Marc Antony wasted no time starting a riot over his body...

That's the flip side of it. There are folks who want power, and who will do anything to get it, including suborn the cause of world peace (which IMHO will land you in a lower circle of hell than simply murdering one man for his beliefs... but I digress)... and some of those people who would trade the peace of a nation for their own comfort (or putative revenge) included some of Martin King's own community.

Bless their little pea-pickin' hearts.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I just had my browser toss its cookies on me (double metaphor there), and when I tried to view this entry without logging in, it gave me an Adult Content screen. Dunno if that was intentional on your part, or if the management is up to its old tricks again...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Trix are for kids. Not me. ^^

[foogod.livejournal.com]

The problem is that it does make sense.

I wish it didn't. Not making sense would mean that we lived in a better world than we do.